I’m building a home brew hardware device on the Ubuntu platform. There are 3-4 specific binaries loaded on to the device, and the user will at times need to be running one of them at a time.

Since I want the product to have a console feel, I’d like to boot directly into some sort of kiosk or app launcher, that would only allow the user to select from one of these preset binaries.

At the moment, I care less about actual security of the system (user breaking out of the sandbox), and more about ease of use and UX.

I’ve searched the web for an easy solution to this, but everything I’ve found seems like a lot of configuration and set up. I’ve also looked briefly into some of the game emulator Linux builds, but modifying these feels like overkill. I know some configuration will be necessary, but was hoping the community may be able to help me save some cycles with a few suggested applications or methods to achieve this!

I should also mention I’m open to both paid and free software options.

Any ideas?